NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging! Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting. I hope you enjoy these nuggets! (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.) Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!
London: Then and now!
The wonderful video below was shot in London in the mid-1920s by Claude Friese-Greene, a British pioneer of colorized cinematography. His method of colorizing film, called Friese-Greene Natural Colour--done during the age of silent movies--never caught on, and eventually was eclipsed by the Kenemacolor technique, also developed in Britain, and then by the Technicolor technique, developed in America.
If you're a fan of Downton Abbey (and who isn't?), the video is of special significance. Downton's beginning episodes took place in 1916; when the show's third series airs this winter, the episodes will take place in the early 1920s, right before this footage was shot. How delightful to have such insight into the time period of our beloved Downton!
The wonderful video below was shot in London in the mid-1920s by Claude Friese-Greene, a British pioneer of colorized cinematography. His method of colorizing film, called Friese-Greene Natural Colour--done during the age of silent movies--never caught on, and eventually was eclipsed by the Kenemacolor technique, also developed in Britain, and then by the Technicolor technique, developed in America.
If you're a fan of Downton Abbey (and who isn't?), the video is of special significance. Downton's beginning episodes took place in 1916; when the show's third series airs this winter, the episodes will take place in the early 1920s, right before this footage was shot. How delightful to have such insight into the time period of our beloved Downton!
VIDEO: London in 1927 (Note: British Film Institute has corrected the date to 1926)
London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.
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